Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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North Dakota beat Michigan State, 4-3, Saturday, to win the National Collegiate hockey championship tournament in Troy, N.Y. In a second game, Boston College defeated St. Lawrence...
Although the varsity finished in eighth place after the second and third rounds, they were tied with Cornell and Pennsylvania for fifth after the first round on Friday. In addition, the team beat Columbia, who placed third in the tournament, in all three weapons...
Hard-eyed and tightlipped, New York City's Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy last week presided over an unusual ceremony. Kennedy, an up-from-the-beat disciplinarian who runs New York's 23,600-man force with an iron hand (TIME, July 7), promoted eight cops ranging from rookie patrolman to lieutenant. Curiously, all eight were raised for the same reason: they had put the finger on other cops during a month of sordid police scandals that rocked the world's largest city...
...little (pop. 3,000) north German medieval town of Schoenfliess, where Paulus Tillich grew up, "one lived from Advent to Christmas to Pentecost. At Easter we children walked through the town with bundles of birch rods. It was the custom to beat the adults to get Easter eggs from them. Oh, how well I remember the wonderful fragrance of the fresh leaves!" At eight, Paul had his first brush with his future when "I encountered the conception of the Infinite." By the time he was 16, he knew he wanted to be a philosopher, and to this chancy calling...
...winter of 1931-32, a gang of 300-odd storm troopers invaded the university in Frankfurt and beat up leftist students. Tillich stood horrified in the midst of the melee, and in the investigation that followed took a vociferous part against the Nazi thugs. As soon as Hitler came to power the following year, Tillich read in the newspaper that he had been dismissed from the faculty...